Baseball and Emotions

It's April. The baseball season, barring any worldwide tragic events, will ultimately end in October, with the crowning of another World Series champion. Most teams have played no more than maybe 17 games at this point in the season, and there are still over 140 games left to be played. Regardless of the seeming irrelevance of the games being played now, I find that my emotions are ultimately decided by the end of each day by the outcomes of all of the games that I am interested in.

This can be said about pretty much any sport that I am currently following - being baseball season, baseball outcomes ultimately decide how I am feeling by day's end.

Today, was an excellent day, and I feel wonderful.

• Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets in Shea, 7-3, with Chipper crushing a monster homer, and Tim Hudson throwing a dominant, scoreless eight innings.
• Washington Nationals, despite a blown save by Chad Cordero, prevail in 14-innings over the Florida Marlins. The worst team in the history of Major League Baseball shouldn't be winning games like this.
• Boston Red Sox charge back against Mariano Rivera and the New York Yankees. Torre fails yet again to realize that a man like Rivera should not be used for anything other than three-out saves. Okajima slams the door on the Yankees in place of Papelbon.
• St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley - Lou Piniella explodes... twice. Mysteriously, nobody seems to get the win for the Cards.
• Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, further plunging them into the dregs of the majors. Flash Gordon blows his second save of the year, thus proving how much the Phillies suck.
• In Texas, one of my favorite targets in baseball, Bruce Chen contributed to the overall routing of the Rangers by the Athletics.

Watching Baseball Tonight and seeing all these Braves and Nationals players in both Web Gems, Best Hits, and That's Nasty leaves me with a good taste in my mouth as I sign off.